Domesday Project

• Guest 651

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  12 May 2011     11:19105859
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  Any remember the project in 1986 (900 years after the original) for a modern domesday book?
  
  It was on massive 'CDs' that have long been obsolete and the BBC have now managed to get it online. Only 25 years ago, but interesting to see how Dover has changed
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 657

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  12 May 2011     11:53105860
  #2      
  Really interesting, thanks.
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• Guest 698

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  12 May 2011     16:53105920
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  I can remember trudging for miles over farmland around Canterbury 'helping' our sons collect data for that project. Fortunately it was mostly in the area around Tyler Hill and Broad Oak where there are (were!) several family-friendly pubs.
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• Guest 700

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  12 May 2011     17:02105923
  #4      
  How our village has changed in those few years...
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• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  12 May 2011     20:53105969
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  tell us more kath, has it changed for the better or worse?
• Guest 700

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  12 May 2011     22:14105984
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  Howard - some and some...
  
  We lost the tradesmen who came door to door once or twice a week - butcher, baker, greengrocer, fishmonger....
  We lost our village shop (soon after Tescos opened at Whitfield)
  We lost a lot of postal collections - and second post delivery
  We still have the WI, Cricket Club and Village Hall Committee but have lost the Playgroup/Nursery School, Good Companions Club (for the elderly)
  Farming has changed - less beef rearing, less crops (more set-aside),
  We have an improved playing field and equipment, and a much improved, well maintained and equipped village hall, which is regularly hired out to clubs and privately.
  
  Yes, some and some ....
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• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
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  12 May 2011     22:29105988
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  Kath, is the football team still going strong.
  
  Shame about the playgroup and Good Companions.
  
  You also lost the village pub in 2000 but still have the Plough and Harrow.
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• Guest 640

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  13 May 2011     08:55106027
  #8      
  This DOMESDAY Press Release has just come topically in from DDC
  
  
  REMEMBER THE EIGHTIES
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  Dover Museum is remembering the Eighties and looking at how the area has changed over the last 30 years in a new exhibition, which opens Monday 16 May.
  
  Using contrasting photographs from now and then, 'Dover in Pictures' looks at changing times in the area, and compares the district of 30 years ago with the area today. It includes a comparison of technology, fashion and everyday items, as well as archive and film material, and a chance for visitors to write down and display their own memories of Dover at the time. The exhibition runs in connection with the BBC's 'Domesday Reloaded' online project, which explores the results of the 1986 Domesday project, where local people captured and recorded the life and landscape of the 1980s in their area, using photos and text.
  
  The exhibition runs at Dover Museum from 16 May to 8 October. If you have items from the 1980s that you would like to see added to the displays, and would be willing to lend them to the Museum, please contact Sam Harris on 01304 216883. For general information, please call Dover Museum on 01304 201066.
  
  
  
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• Guest 683

  • Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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  13 May 2011     10:20106034
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  Items from the 1980s?!!!!!!!!!! I am either wearing them or using them and certainly can't afford to let a museum haver them for a couple of weeks!
• Diana Woodridge

  • Location: Dover
  13 May 2011     10:43106036
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  I'm trying to think what I've still got from the 80's and I can only think of my husband and kids, and one or two records! However, I am renowned for chucking out anything that is not nailed down.....
• Guest 700

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  14 May 2011     11:08106186
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  Jan - re Tilmanstone - yes, we missed the Ravens pub!
  
  Sorry to say the Football team had to amalgamate with Eastry and now use the pitch at Eastry I think.
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